Abstract

Plan and situated action relationship has been an active area of
debate in recent years in various fields of study yet such relationship has a
propensity for ambiguity. It would be a limited/desperate argument to claim that
plans can capture every level of detail. Needless to say, a model cannot exceed
or equal reality. Given that a clear mismatch/incongruence or gap exists between
plans and actual events, how do people experience this gap and how do they act
accordingly?
The proposed framework integrates the field theory of the here-and-now action
developed by Kurt Lewin (1936), with both the prototype and basic-level category
theories developed primarily by Rosch (1978). Lewins theory captures the
dynamic properties of situations whereas Roschs categorization theories
capture typifications of the human experience. More specifically, plans are
conceived as an activity category-set of possibilities of some future events by
which plans have categorical relationships with future actions.